{"id":6874,"date":"2014-11-16T15:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T22:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6874"},"modified":"2014-11-16T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T22:16:05","slug":"a-new-investigation-of-fairly-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6874","title":{"rendered":"A New Investigation of Fairy Encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"

This request for help with a compilation of contemporary Fairy encounters and lore <\/a>comes from Simon Young of the re-launched Fairy Investigation Society<\/a>. The FIS was founded in 1927, died in the early 1990s, and in late 2014 it came back to life.<\/p>\n

The survey (\u2018the fairy census\u2019) is split into three parts: (i) for those who have seen fairies, (ii) those who have second-hand accounts of fairies and (iii) a more general one on fairy belief, which can be filled out by anyone who understands the word \u2018fairy\u2019, I did it with my four-year-old daughter yesterday . . . I have used the phrase \u2018associated with the FIS\u2019 in all press releases. I did this because I thought it might be a good way to attract extra members, as I was trusting in coverage around the world in the two years it runs. In the first forty eight hours we had forty detailed fairy sightings (in the first and second category). Just to put this in perspective the great and energetic Marjorie Johnson managed a couple of hundred sightings in her two year survey, 1955\u20131956. It would be great to get to two thousand, which would mean by far the biggest folklore survey of its kind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He is also the author of a paper on the original Fairy Investigation Society, available at Academia. edu, along with other of his works.<\/a><\/p>\n

Link to the survey.<\/a><\/p>\n

I have previously mentioned Diane Purkiss’s historical survey of fairy lore, <\/a>and I still hold the position that fairies are not your friends.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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